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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1922)
PAG E 4 T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N SENIOR NOTES W e begin to th in k th e re m ig h t be a senior play. But “ m u m ’s ” th e w ord. T h e senior class is glad to see a classm ate, A nna Stone, back to C hem aw a. A fter h earin g th e g ran d concert last F rid ay ev ery one seems am bitious to be a m usician. You never can tell. T h e seniors have a little su rp rise for every one. Can you guess w hat it is? Come to the au ditorium F rid ay nig h t and see. T h e glorious feast is over and everybody is h ap p y and is w o rking as h ard as ever. Ju st look in Room 9 w hen th e seniors are th e re . Bill M in th o rn e has w hat we may term a “ s h in e r.” I t ’s a lrig h t th o u g h , Bill, you upheld the honor of th e senior class and we th an k you. W e have p u t aside th e “ T ale of Tw o C itie s” and are now reading the “ Life of Benjam in F ra n k lin .” It is not so th rillin g , b u t is in te re stin g . Ju st th in k ! A fter the g reat doings T h u rsd ay th ere is only one m em ber m issing, but accounted for. T h a t’s w hat we call a good record in attendance. W e th a n k the sophom ores very m uch for the help they gave us on T h an k sg iv in g . In fact they did m ost of the w ork and we give them credit for it. W e get pretty anxious every W ednesday to atten d the assem bly. T h e talk s are in terestin g and helpful. C u rren t event questions are som etim es h ard , but we know m ost of them . T h e seniors and sophies came o u t victorious from th e g reat b attle last T h u rsd a y . It is all over now and th ere are no m ore hard feelings. Both team s played well and ended w ith a score of 19 to 22 in fa vor of th e crim son and gold and the blue and gold. IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FACTS T h e B ureau of In d ian A ffairs was established M arch 11, 1824, and the office of com m issioner of In d ian Affairs was created in 1822; in 1849 the D epartm ent o f the I n terior was established and th e Bureau of In d ian Affairs was tran sferred to th a t d epartm ent by the W ar D epart m ent. G overnm ent records show th a t there are now 340,917 In d ian s in the U nited S tates, an increase of about 13*- 500 over ten years ago. A bout 200,000 In d ia n s have received allotm ents of land to talin g 40,000,000 acres valued at half a billion dollars. T h ere rem ains to be allotted to 125,000 In d ian s 35,000,000 acres valued at $75,000,000. In d ian p ro p erty is not subject to ta x a tion as long as th e p ro perty is held in tru st by th e G o v ern m en t. T h e In d ia n s own liv esto ck valued at about $35,000,- 000. T hey have in the trea su ry of the U nited States som ething like $25,000,000 of tribal funds, besides nearly $35,000,000 of individual m oney deposited in various banks th ro u g h o u t th e co u n try . T h e total I n dian property of all k in d s is valued at nearly one billion dollars.' T h e first appropriation was m ade Ju ly 12,1775; it was $500 for th e education of In d ian y outh at D arts- m outh College, New H am p sh ire. T h e first general appropriation was for $10,000, m ade M arch 3, 1819, w hich was m ade annually u n til 1849. In d ian edu ca tion has increased u ntil a t present there are about 65,000 In d ian youths atten d in g school and 20,000 not in school. T h e governm ent ap p ro p riates annually about $5,000,000 for In d ian ed u catio n .— E x tra c ts from H o n . E .B .M e ritt’s speech at Baltim ore, M d .,N o v .l, 1922. Y. M. AND Y. W. 0. A. NOTES An in terestin g program was given at th e C lim bers Club m eeting last M onday, in clu d in g a recitation by Fred Fom en; a discussion of th e responsibility of a C lim ber, by John Jackson, Jo h n E dlem an, R oyal H olst and Jo hn P etellin; and a story of the industrial s itu a tion in A laskan canneries, by Royal H o lst. T h e Ju n io r Y . W . girls are d o in g an exceptional am ount of Bible m em ory w ork th is year. T h e m em bership of th is little club is now 49, and th e contest sp irit is ru n n in g h igh. K atie G artlem an and A lex G regorioff are rivals for first place, each having learned m ore th a n 75 Bible verses. T h e C hristm as m eeting will close th e contest. E ig h t of th e S unday School teachers took the e x am ination on the principles of teach in g last week. T h e exam was a hard one, b u t their papers look very prom ising. T h ey have been sent to S eattle h ead q u ar ters for correction. T hose ta k in g th e exam ination were, T heresa E scholt, A nna P eratovich, E li K ar- abelnikoff, C arrie A nderson, L ydia Davis, John D ex ter, Jesse M organ, A ddie M erril. T h e Y .M . and Y .W .C .A . held th e ir ann u al jo in t T h an k sg iv in g V esper Service in th e au d ito riu m last S u n d ay evening, w ith W allace M organ presiding. Rose G ray, president of the Y .W .C .A ., and W allace M organ, president of the Y .M .C .A ., spoke briefly on w hat th e ir organization had to be th an k fu l for th is year. Special m usical num bers were given by th e Y. M C .A . q u arte tte, and F lora and John D exter, who plaved a violin d u et, th a t was m uch enjoyed. T h e address of the evening was given by Rev. W ard W il lis L ong, of th e F irst P resbyterian C hurch in Salem . H e spoke very forcefully on the com m on blessings w hich we are accustom ed to take for g ran ted , and for w hich we should be uncom m only th a n k fu l. T h e m eeting was one of th e best “ jo in ts ” ever held at Chem aw a. M r. and M rs. H all, M r. and Mrs. Iliff, Mr. and M rs. Downie, Miss R oberts and Miss Judd were welcome visitors at the m eeting.
